Bug#495274: ffmpeg (arm) stops with the error message "Could not read stream parameters"

[Peter Bauer]

Package: ffmpeg
Version: 0.cvs20060823-8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


The problem is in the arch: arm in Debian 4.0
Hardware:  Nslu2 or N2100/ALL6500 NAS boxes

ALL6500:~# uname -a
Linux ALL6500 2.6.18-6-iop32x #1 Wed Jun 18 16:51:50 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux

ALL6500:~# dpkg -l  ffmpeg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version                           Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
ii  ffmpeg                            0.cvs20060823-8                   multimedia player, server 


ALL6500:~# ffmpeg -r 30 -s cif -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0  http://localhost:8090/feed.ffm
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr 
  libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
  libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
  built on Mar 26 2007 19:25:46, gcc: 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
[video4linux2 @ 0x4009aaf0][3]Capabilities: 5000001
Input #0, video4linux2, from '/dev/video0':
  Duration: N/A, bitrate: 36495 kb/s
  Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 352x288, 36495 kb/s, 30.00 fps(r)
Could not read stream parameters from 'http://localhost:8090/feed.ffm'
127.0.0.1 - - [Fri Aug 15 21:57:28 2008] "GET /feed.ffm HTTP/1.0" 200 4165


wget seems to be able to read from the specified URL:

ALL6500:~# wget http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed.ffm
--22:03:08--  http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed.ffm
           => `feed.ffm.1'
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8090... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified []

    [ <=>                                                                                                              ] 4,112         --.--K/s             

22:03:08 (5.01 MB/s) - `feed.ffm.1' saved [4112]

ALL6500:~# hexdump -C feed.ffm.1
00000000  46 46 4d 31 00 00 10 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00  |FFM1............|
00000010  00 00 00 01 00 07 a1 20  00 00 00 06 00 00 07 a1  |....... ........|
00000020  20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  | ...............|
00000030  00 00 0f 46 28 00 5b a4  f0 01 60 01 20 00 00 00  |...F(.[...`. ...|
00000040  00 00 00 03 1f 03 13 88  13 88 00 01 e8 48 74 65  |.............Hte|
00000050  78 5e 71 43 6f 6d 70 00  00 0f 42 40 00 00 00 00  |x^qComp...B at ....|
00000060  00 0f 42 40 bf e9 99 99  a0 00 00 00 3f f4 00 00  |..B at ........?...|
00000070  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 3f f4 00 00  |............?...|
00000080  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
000000a0  00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 08 00 00 00 0d  |................|
000000b0  3f f0 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |?...............|
000000c0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00001000  00 07 a1 20 00 00 00 06  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |... ............|
00001010


ALL6500:~# cat /etc/ffserver.conf 
Port 8090
<Feed feed.ffm>
File /ramdisc/feed.ffm
FileMaxSize 1M
ACL allow localhost
CustomLog -
</Feed>


#Real Media
#cif 352x288
<Stream cam.rm>
Feed feed.ffm
Format rm
AudioBitRate 32
VideoBitRate 500
VideoFrameRate 6
VideoSize cif
NoAudio
</Stream>





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm (armv5tel)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-iop32x
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libavcodec0d           0.cvs20060823-8   ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat0d          0.cvs20060823-8   ffmpeg file format library
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.11-8          Simple DirectMedia Layer

ffmpeg recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information